Rename and join the Hyper-V servers to the Domain…..btw i updated the Active Directory already to 2012R2 🙂

Configured all of the network cards as pre planned all teaming except the ISCSI.

2 cards for Managment

2 cards for Virtual Switch

2 cards for ISCSI

1 card for IMM

Installed MPIO and ISCSI for mapping the newly created Volume on the V3700…

Very Important not to use Teaming for ISCSI it’s not best practices and works bad, best is to use the MPIO by Microsoft.

Next…Connected the ISCSI initiators to the target Cluster IP of the V3700 and success login.

You can see that i successfully connected to the target V3700.

Next install on both Hyper-V the feature Fail Over Clustering and reboot.

Open the FailoverCluster and run the Validate Cluster Wizard….this process will check that all of the pre configuration are ready for creating the cluster Important to understand that this process only validates and doesn’t create.

I got some red errors about having a few more Network cards with the same IP 169.254.x.x…of-course Microsoft there not connected i had to just Disable these two cards on both servers before retrying the validation again.

Next, Give the Hyper-V cluster a name and IP you will need to pick on witch network cards you will like to relay i choosed the Management.

I Couldn’t print screen the real deal because of security issues so i just found this screen online.

Next up creating the CSV for the Virtual Machines .

It will look somthing like this…on the right there is the Add Storage wizard so easy just add the ISCSI Volume we created on the V3700.

Now just create a new a Virtual Switch or Virtual Fiber Swtich in our case it’s a Virtual Switch.

New external virtual switch and configure the bind with the pre configured Teaming for the Virtual Switch Card.

Create a new VM or via the Hyper-v Management or via the FailoverCluster Management….so whats the different. ?

If you would like the VM to be Highly Avalible and be able to LiveMigration you will pick the FailoverCluster Management but if you want just a simple VM pick the Hyper-V Management, i always want the HightAvailability so lets have a look….